Defining and assessing the transformational nature of smart city governance: insights from four European cases
本文通过分析阿姆斯特丹、巴塞罗那、都灵和维也纳四个欧洲智慧城市，探讨智慧城市模式是否改变了现有制度结构和行政实践，并评估其治理模型的变革程度。
Smart cities are a new approach to urban development based on the extensive use of information and communication technologies and on the promotion of environmental sustainability, economic development and innovation. The article is aimed at discussing whether the adoption of a smart city approach entails the transformation of existing institutional structures and administrative practices. To this end, four cases of European smart cities are analysed: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Turin and Vienna. The article describes their models of governance, investigates the level of transformation that occurred in their governmental structures, outlines the main drawbacks and identifies possible connections with the emergent paradigm of the New Public Governance.